It's your dime.

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magnumdart

magnumdart

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I am sitting watching Youtube, binging on
"r/IDontWorkHereLady", when a call comes in. I can see it is my youngest daughter. I answer, "It's your dime.". She said, " What did you say? ". "I said it's your dime.".
She says, "What does that mean?"
Then it dawns on me. I had my first Motorola cell phone four or five years before she was born.
I have to explain. I'm not sure she has ever seen pay phone. I am just getting too old.
 
magnumdart said:
I am sitting watching Youtube, binging on
"r/IDontWorkHereLady", when a call comes in. I can see it is my youngest daughter. I answer, "It's your dime.". She said, " What did you say? ". "I said it's your dime.".
She says, "What does that mean?"
Then it dawns on me. I had my first Motorola cell phone four or five years before she was born.
I have to explain. I'm not sure she has ever seen pay phone. I am just getting too old.
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my wife's Grandma says "it's your nickel".... my my have the prices jumped! LOL
 
Treblig said:
And the modern Soda machines want $1.50 for a 15 cent drink:mad::mob::elmer::poke::realcrazy:
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Whenever it was that the first no-deposit-no-return bottles came out, there was a "one arm" coke machine at a local service station. A HUGE machine. The owners had not properly adjusted the machine for the new bottles, and you could put in whatever it was (I don't remember anymore, 25?) and then hold the big arm down, pull on a bottle, spring the arm up just enough to pull the bottle, and then shove the arm back down. You could empty an entire chute that way.

Similar to this one

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Funny, I was just listening to Frankie Miller Sunday afternoon and when I heard the part about a dime it made me laugh.
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime
Darlin' you're so far behind me
Tomorrow's gonna find me
Further down the line

Takin' me some paper
Pencil in my hand
I'm gonna write

Darlin' you know I feel the cold nights

Thinking of the old nights
Spent along with you
Darlin' the tear is in my eye now
Knowing I can try now
To make it back to you

Darlin'
Love you more than ever
Wish we were together
Darlin' of mine
Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
 
This is what the Pontiac guys had. If you did it just right you could slide the bottles right out. No nickel. I'm pretty sure they new I was doing it. LOL
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^We had one of those at my hometown city hall^. They must have had it adjusted "perfectly" because there was no way to diddle it, other than pop the caps and suck them dry with a straw. The two years between graduation and leaving for the U.S. Navy, I was the graveyard "radio operator" for the local city PD. In those days (this was a small town), EVERYBODY was on one low band VHF channel, around 39 mhz. These used a full size whip somewhat shorter than a "big" CB whip, about 6 ft high. There were several small towns, three counties, and part of the Idaho SP on this freq. "You could hear everything" lol

Unfortunately, I spent a short period being nearly addicted to diet Pepsi "back then." What was it originally, saccarin? One of the radio stations played Bill Cosby records. There was usually not that much cookin' around there at night.

What used to be city hall Library was top floor most of the right side of photo. Firemen's crew quarters was above the doors on the left of photo. I worked in the window just left of the walk in door, and the two windows left of that were fire chief's office. Lower windows to right of photo and out to rear of photo were city administration

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My view looking out the west window where I worked. This has changed A LOT. The street curb was different, and there was a fire hydrant "right there" by the pole. And, the corner of that building was inset, with the door at a 45 under the corner, which was supported by a gigantic metal pole. you could sit there in dispatch and look in the angled windows of the store------which was the NAPA store where my Dad worked-----and look back behind you like a mirror, down Main st to First Ave, and see cars driving by. One night a car pulled up to the stop sign beside city hall, and I saw the driver fall over. Said to myself "Looks like Danny Lee's 59 Chev. Wonder if he's drunk, or looking for a beer or what?" Car started to move, came into view out of the corner of my window, bumped up over the curb, missing the hydrant and power pole, and NAILED THAT GIGANTIC STEEL POST dead center. Wrapped that 59 Chev front end all the way around the pole. Danny had straightened up, (woke up) and raised up behind the wheel just in time to be smashed headlong into the wheel.

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magnumdart said:
This is what the Pontiac guys had. If you did it just right you could slide the bottles right out. No nickel. I'm pretty sure they new I was doing it. LOLView attachment 1715452448
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The YMCA had a 5 cent machine just like that when I was a kid (1960ish). I'd get a bottle of pop, then I'd put a penny in a machine to get a small handful of peanuts, put the peanuts in the soda and drink away. Ah, the good old days.
 
magnumdart said:
I am sitting watching Youtube, binging on
"r/IDontWorkHereLady", when a call comes in. I can see it is my youngest daughter. I answer, "It's your dime.". She said, " What did you say? ". "I said it's your dime.".
She says, "What does that mean?"
Then it dawns on me. I had my first Motorola cell phone four or five years before she was born.
I have to explain. I'm not sure she has ever seen pay phone. I am just getting too old.
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Was ''its ur nickel'' , where I came from .
 
magnumdart said:
This is what the Pontiac guys had. If you did it just right you could slide the bottles right out. No nickel. I'm pretty sure they new I was doing it. LOLView attachment 1715452448
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They had one at the garage near where I lived and was outside. After the garage was closed we would flip the lid off and drink with a straw. One day he changed the machine so now more free drinks.
 
I worked at a Holiday gas station in Minnetonka Minnesota during the late 70s.
We had one of the “modern” pop can machines out front. Big mutha !
One afternoon we realized it was gone !
Lol
That was a cool job because Holidays were the last stations to have 100 octane leaded fuel. We had all the muscle car business .
 
And you know the price for a phone call went way out of hand in "Sylvias Mother"!
And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes"
 
grimreaper said:
And you know the price for a phone call went way out of hand in "Sylvias Mother"!
And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes"
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He was probably phoning long distance.
He should have phoned ''collect''.
That's something you never hear anymore is people phoning ''collect'' or ''party lines'' either.
 
318willrun said:
my wife's Grandma says "it's your nickel".... my my have the prices jumped! LOL
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Local pay phone calls were a nickel when I was doing basic training and AIT at Ft. Polk, LA, back in the early 70s.
Home in SoCal they were a dime.
 
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